The Experience of Living with a CardioMEMSTM

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dc.contributor.advisorReay, Gudrun
dc.contributor.authorDiakow, Rachel
dc.contributor.committeememberRaffin Bouchal, Donna Shelley
dc.contributor.committeememberKing-Shier, Kathryn
dc.date2022-02
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-18T15:58:58Z
dc.date.available2022-01-18T15:58:58Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-13
dc.description.abstractBackground: Heart failure is a serious health concern and places significant demands on the Canadian health care system. One method of follow-up monitoring is the CardioMEMSTM implant, which measures a patient’s pulmonary artery pressures. Healthcare professionals can use information from the device to make recommendations for the management of heart failure. Research published on CardioMEMSTM focuses predominantly on decreasing admission rates, emergency visits, and length of stay in hospital. Living with the CardioMEMSTM implant requires patients to be directly involved in data transmission, communicating with healthcare professionals, and titrating medications from their home. There is a paucity of information on the patient experience of living with a CardioMEMSTM device. Research Question: What is it like to live with a CardioMEMSTM device? Method: This was an interpretive description study. Six semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with people living with the CardioMEMSTM implant in the Calgary area. Data were analyzed using interpretive description methodology to find both patterns and variances within the data. Findings: The central found was support which was substantiated by the themes of autonomy, improved health, and convenience. Variations to the central theme were a sense of decreased control, anticipatory loss, anxiety and guilt, and inconvenience associated with using the device. Discussion: Findings can be used by healthcare professionals and candidates for the device to further understand the patient experience of living with a CardioMEMSTM device.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDiakow, R. (2022). The Experience of Living with a CardioMEMSTM (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.)en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39515
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/114300
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyNursingen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectcardiologyen_US
dc.subjectheart failureen_US
dc.subjectinterpretive descriptionen_US
dc.subjecttelemonitoringen_US
dc.subjectCardioMEMSen_US
dc.subjectnursingen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Healthen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Technologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationNursingen_US
dc.titleThe Experience of Living with a CardioMEMSTMen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineNursingen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Nursing (MN)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
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